“Content-based restriction on doctors’ speech to patients about guns passes ‘strict scrutiny'”: Eugene Volokh has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

His post concludes, “The panel majority opinion, then, is dangerous — indeed, more dangerous than the earlier opinions in this case . . . .”

My earlier coverage of Monday’s Eleventh Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“California Supreme Court to decide how class action lawyers should be paid”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

“Obama Administration Urges Dismissal of Challenge to Colorado Pot Law; Nebraska, Oklahoma officials say legalization has increased drug crimes in their states”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Ricardo Baca of The Cannabist, a publication of The Denver Post, reports that “Top fed lawyer urges SCOTUS to not hear Colorado marijuana lawsuit.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Obama admin. urges high court to reject marijuana lawsuit.”

Via Josh Blackman, you can access the amicus brief of the United States at this link.

“In reply to ethics charges, Supreme Court justice says emails were never meant to be public”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice who may be suspended over objectionable emails did not bring the judgeship into disrepute because the ‘male banter’ he exchanged with friends was never intended to be made public, his lawyers said Wednesday.”

Update: You can access the documents filed in the case, including Justice J. Michael Eakin’s answer to the complaint filed yesterday, via this link.

“As Oklahoma marks century of executions, future of death penalty uncertain”: Graham Lee Brewer of The Oklahoman has this report.

“A do-over on D.C. gun law”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Stephanos Bibas explains the work of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic”: Penn Law has posted online this news release. And this related video is available online at YouTube.

“Stephen Glass is still retracting his fabricated stories — 18 years later”: Columnist Michael Hiltzik had this essay online yesterday at The Los Angeles Times.

“Constitutional Check: Will the Supreme Court clarify birthright citizenship?” Lyle Denniston had this post yesterday at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Eakin should step down in the wake of email scandal”: Today’s edition of The Reading (Pa.) Eagle contains an editorial that begins, “Two months ago, when the state Judicial Conduct Board was investigating accusations that state Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin sent and received raunchy, racist and sexist emails, we suggested that he take a leave of absence until the matter was resolved. Now, after the board charged Eakin with ethics violations as a result of those emails, we call for his resignation.”

“Hawaiian self-governance uncertain after election cancelled”: The Associated Press has this report today.

“Is the Texas Ten Percent Plan ‘Race Neutral’?” Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay today at Justia.com’s Verdict.

Today at “Dorf on Law,” he has a related post titled “Was Justice Scalia’s Discussion of ‘Lesser Schools’ Racist?”

And yesterday at The Huffington Post, law professor Geoffrey R. Stone had a blog entry titled “Justice Scalia, Affirmative Action and the Perils of Oral Argument.”

“Executions at lowest level since 1991; death sentences fall”: Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has this report.

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Dispute over lethal injection drugs fuels drop in U.S. executions.”